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  Video of British Airways flight battling strong crosswinds captured in Gibraltar

  The Independent - Joanna Whitehead

  Footage of a British Airways plane flying over Gibraltar today shows the aircraft battling strong crosswinds and rocking from side to side. Flight …

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  Abandoned Airport Terminal Given New Life as a Retro-Inspired Luxury Hotel

  My Modern Met - Sara Barnes

  New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport has a new addition that's a blast from the past. The airport recently introduced its first on-airport hotel that pays homage to the former Trans World Airlines (TWA). Once one of the country's largest airlines, it began operations in 1930 and …

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  Is this the end of the Airbus A380?

  The Independent - Simon Calder

  On the last day of 2018, Airbus made a state-of-the-market announcement. It was headlined: “Airbus achieves new commercial aircraft delivery record …

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  Boeing’s Decision of the Decade: Does It Build the 797?

  Bloomberg - Julie Johnsson

  Boeing Co. executives are closing in on one of their most important decisions of the decade: whether to plow an estimated $15 billion into a new …

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  Boeing's radical wing design unveiled

  CNN - By Jack Guy

  (CNN) — The future looks interesting for air passengers, with a raft of new designs in the pipeline promising faster planes capable of taking people on longer flights in greater comfort. Boeing's latest innovation in the travel field is an extremely thin, folding wing that will offer unprecedented …

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  Can long-haul air travel also be low cost?

  bbc.co.uk - By Chris Johnston

  Budget airlines have transformed air travel over the past two decades, making a flight almost as cheap as a coach journey for hundreds of millions of travellers. But can the same ever be true for longer journeys as well? Our love affair with budget airlines continues unabated. Ryanair, the Irish …